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I actually think there is some potential life there for Nikon to make an APS-C Z camera. I read an(other) interesting interview with Sigma CEO Kazuto Yamaki yesterday that featured a couple of salient points. The first is that they are making L mount versions of their APS-C lineup and the second is that their engineers are actively, erm, "analysing" the Z and R mounts. Obviously they are going after Leica's T/TL/CL owners with the L mount versions as well as I would imagine a straight swap out L mount version of their current SD-Q to complement the upcoming full frame version of it. The assumption would obviously be that they will be doing their greatest hits collection of ART lenses like the 18-35mm f1.8 but when you look at the form factor of the T/TL/CL but I think they'd do very well with making L mount versions of their DN range for mirrorless https://www.sigmaphoto.com/lenses/dn-for-mirrorless?sigma_mount=12990 I've got a few of these for my A6500 and they are way better than their price would have you suspect but crucially because they are so compact they would be a great match for the T/TL/CL. Which brings us to the Z mount and if they repeated the same for that. Whilst a straightforward APS-C reduction version of the Z6 (as they do with their DSLRs) might be a bit meh I think Nikon would do pretty well with an X-Pro2/X-E3 style camera taking advantage of the size reductions of mirrorless for bodies and lenses. Basically, the Nikon 1 series as it should have been in the first place.

On the one hand I think it might suggest a loss of face about the new mount but on the other hand milking that range of existing EF lenses must be very tempting. Maybe the RF should have been the one to act as a gateway to mirrorless for their DSLR owners as one problem with having a lens system that can now be adapted electronically to every other system is that people have other options when it comes to going mirrorless if your own system is going to need an adapter anyway.

The red one here. The cluster in blue looked suspect to me as well.

Yeah your sensor looks absolutely filthy on this one Really nice shot. I was fine with the ones over water in the other shot being birds but it was the one in the cloud at about 1 o'clock to your actor's head that had me convinced it was dirt!

I think the price drops from Nikon and Canon are probably reflective of slow body sales due to people hesitating over buying into a new lens mount as much as they are about the bodies not being interesting enough. Both systems launched with pretty underwhelming native lens lineups that offered no enticement to anyone to make the switch if they could only get their current lens ranges via adapters. Most of us on here have no problem being early adopters and using adapters but I'm not sure its a view shared by the larger camera buying public. I think that Panasonic may well be walking straight into the same problem unless Sigma get those native L mount lenses out pretty sharpish.

I've been staring at this and wondering if they are birds. Do I need to clean my glasses or do you need to clean your sensor?

If you go on that BM forum you could probably sell half of them and fund the purchase !

Just as a cautionary FYI about this is that there is some weird shit going on with SD cards for these cameras now. I pulled my Pocket out to do something with it and it didn't recognise any of the SD cards (Sandisk Pro and Extreme ones off the approved list) that I put in it. Had a bit of a search and it turns out something changed at the Sandisk end that has caused their new cards to be permanently incompatible with these cameras but also with the Video Assist. Sony changed the firmware in their cameras to accomodate the change but BM haven't and are not really showing any intention of. The thread I found was long and alarming as people were buying and returning all manner of cards trying to find any that would work with them without any success. It now seems to have boiled down to only one card that you can buy new that will work in them (a Sony one ironically) so make sure you have some available! https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=80355

Another one to add to the list then along with the A7IIIs, the Sharp 8K, Canon Pro Mirrorless, Nikon Pro Mirrorless and the Kodak Box Brownie 8K. At this rate Tokyo 2020 is going to be four weeks of camera launches with the occasional athletics event thrown in.

If you want timecode sync of the Ninja V you can use their AtomX Sync add on module if you are within the wireless timecode ecosystem of products from Timecode Systems like pulse: and UltraSync One. If Atomos ever actually release it of course.

By the way, if you're looking for something to base a travel rig on that is really flexible and can be shaped to pretty much anything you want but folds down to pretty much nothing then I did a thread about the Movo a while back that might be worth looking at.

I doubt it will be for a few days but, sure, I'll see what I can do Here is a test between different BRAW rates and ProResHQ that someone has done which you could look at in the meantime There is a download link there too

LT storage rate is just over 40% of HQ so roughly 2.5x the record time per TB.

The second camera is the Sony X3000 though. In its (I'm guessing) primary role as a second angle its not issue but even in 'selfie' mode its plenty wide enough and small enough sensor to get in focus shots without needing too much reach. Well for a normal human that doesn't have T-Rex arms like me it is anyway For what its worth, though, if @kye was open to suggestions about alternative cameras (which I appreciate that he isn't), I agree with your earlier one that the camera I would be using for something like this would be the Osmo, not least because it has a screen but also because it can be driven remotely by a travel companion from a smartphone, something which opens up a ton of additional possibilities to squeeze additional coverage from a fixed position as do the automated tracking options. I'd mount it on a flat bar in the hotshoe but mount the bar facing forward so it overhangs the top of the GH5 lens to give distance back to yourself when its in selfie mode. Mounted in one of these brackets (which has a 1/4 20 mount in the base) its really fast to take it out to use it standalone as well.

Yep, the adapter works fully on the S1. This is an auto-translate from Map Camera's website where they have tried it with a Canon 24-70mm f2.8 L lens (which is outside of the scope of lenses officially supported as they are all Sigma ones). The gist of it seems to be that a) it didn't blow the camera or the adapter up b) it could AF and c) best try it yourself to see if its adequate for your own usage. Considering the only other comparable-ish equivalent lens in L mount is the best part of £4K then it might well be very adequate !

For what you are trying to do, I don't think you can go far wrong with a folding L bracket like this one to mount the X3000 on. The first advantage to this is that the camera can be forward facing but with a quick turn of the screw you can spin it to be rear facing so you can carry on shooting forward with the GH5 but still get your own reaction in simultaneously. The second advantage is if you remove it (and I'd recommend a quick release plate to make it even more effective), you fold the bracket up and have a nice pistol grip for the X3000. With this set up you can go from the X3000 being used as a second angle, a selfie angle and fully autonomous camera within a couple of seconds.

You're talking like I haven't already got a hacksaw, some wires, a few switches and the good old epoxy out

The old 'tape over the contacts' trick has made a comeback ! Manual focus and locked aperture but at least it mounts and I can see some enterprising 3rd party making a cheap semi-smart adapter now that has aperture control.

I was always more interested in the Huawei one when it and the Samsung version were first announced. I'm not sure as a phone really but my interest was in them in a tablet form factor that folded out into a more laptop sized version. I can see much more potential in them for that.

Most have USB host ports though so you can just plug a reader in to them. I do like the look of the Nexto (and whilst not cheap its actually cheaper than I thought it would be) but for my uses it lacks the ability to serve the files wirelessly so I'm still looking at the DIY route. There is a new SBC called Rock Pi that as well as USB3 ports also has an M.2 interface onboard. That is a bit of a gamechanger as it means you can have 1TB on onboard SSD storage for portable card backup in the field that can also act as a wireless drive to an iPad and can even transcode if you wanted it to and all for a total cost of under £200 including the storage. I've built experimental ones with other SBCs but even the ones with USB3 have had that achille's heel of needing external drives to dump onto which makes them a bit clunky. I'm going to try and pick one of these up and see if it can match the potential.

Well thats great news. Weird as well considering they had to do firmware updates for the SL and the CL (and said they have to do one for the TL2) but great news none the less! Makes me wonder whether the T just might be accidentally compatible with the MC-21 as well

Is the T able to control that Panasonic 24-105mm by any chance?

You forgot my Hasselblad

Santa Maria eh? Here is your namesake ship. Why don't you load it full of your Spam and make like Columbus and fuck off in search of new lands.

When they've finished they give the cameras to influencers like Gnome Knows Kodachrome here to hype it up.